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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 4 |
May 17 |
Reply |
Erik, I still talk about the wonderful trip Paula & I enjoyed in your company (along with others) around Arizona. It was a great experience. I also agree that this is a really great study group. |
May 25th |
| 4 |
May 17 |
Reply |
Congratulations Ian. My wife Paula picked that up from somewhere (Facebook??) and showed me the picture that got the award. It's very good. |
May 8th |
| 4 |
May 17 |
Comment |
Hi Ian. I'm very pleased to learn that Claire is now in remission. You must all have been under immense strain for the last 12 months so you have done well to have stuck with the group. I'm very pleased you did, though, as I too feel that we have our own little family here.
The image is very attractive and you have got just the right amount of blur on the water to make it look attractive. Too short and it just looks messy. Too long and you lose the interesting detail. There is no magic figure as it varies according to the velocity of the water and the turbulence in it. Well done. You have als managed to get a good composition with the diagonal line of rocks and mini-cascades coming from the bottom right corner. I don't know if I dare say this in front of Dr Flip, but I think if you flip it, it reads better from left to right. |
May 8th |
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| 4 |
May 17 |
Comment |
It's a great shot of this young chick. It has an aprehensive look on its face as if it is not sure what that big wide world out there is all about. The chick is sharp and well posed. Like Isaac, though, I'm not happy with the white vignette. |
May 8th |
| 4 |
May 17 |
Comment |
Great to have a spider pose for you! You got it nicely in focus - difficult with macro on a subjet that can move. The curve of the petal adds interest to the composition and the out of focus red background makes the spider stand out. Unfortunately, the spider is less that 100 pixels square so it is difficult to see much detail. |
May 8th |
| 4 |
May 17 |
Comment |
Great shot Bill, and obviously a nice lens too. You have got all the detail sharp and managed to get the background gently out of focus. It's a very nice image and your work on it is undetectable. |
May 8th |
| 4 |
May 17 |
Comment |
Super! Well spotted. There is a lot to look at in this image and the man is the icing on the cake. Many judges (certainly in the UK) would criticise this because the man is walking out of the frame, but for me this does not matter. In fact I think it creates a feeling that he is escaping from the darkness of night and heading into a new day. This is underscored by the fact that the image changes from dark to light as we read it from left to right. The perfect reflection puts the walkway on the vertical centre giving the impression that it is suspended in some sort of surreal space. My only crit is that there is a slight perspective distortion which could be easily corrected. |
May 8th |
| 4 |
May 17 |
Comment |
Joe, I really like this. It's the sort of thing I look for in interesting buildings (if they don't have spiral stairs!). The colour compbination works well and the arches are really great. The strength of the image is in the tight selection showing just the tops of the arches and excluding all the rest. I can't make up my mind about the vertical bar at the left. I think I might crop it off and then stretch the arches about 20% horizontally. Isaac's flip is a nice idea too. |
May 8th |
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| 4 |
May 17 |
Reply |
Nice to have someone on the same pills! The continent on the right could be a primeval Africa, so I guess the one on the top left is Atlantis! |
May 8th |
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